The game takes place in a highly detailed, beautifully crafted faithful recreation of the Holy Land including the City of Jerusalem and the Galilee region where Christ spent so much time spreading the gospel’s message and performing miracles." “So He can show you His love.” That sounds like a much better invitation that a chance to hurl insults on Twitter, thanks.According to the official description of the game: " I am Jesus Christ will give players the chance to interact with a cast of over 60 Biblical characters and perform over 30 miracles including feeding the masses and resurrecting the dead. “Yet the Lord still waits for you to come to Him,” Isaiah writes in chapter 30 of his letter. Which is a special shame, because the call of Jesus is indeed to have a crush on him. And if we see other people being mad at someone we’re supposed to be mad at, we join in without a second thought. We’ve accepted that we have a role in the culture war, and that war is to be actively mad at people online. It’s doing something terrible to us emotionally, and we know that, but we often don’t care. Who you’re mad at has become a source of identity for many of us, and exercising that anger feels good. They are mad at Moore because they like being mad at Moore. People aren’t mad at Moore for saying she has a crush on Jesus. If people were actually offended by this language, they’ve had thousands of years to address it. John Eldridge and Brent Curtis wrote The Sacred Romance in 1997, for crying out loud. Moore’s language is both extremely common and downright tame. Even our modern worship choruses have plenty of language for God that would fit into a dating profile. Medieval poets were pull of passionate language for God that would make Drake blush. The Psalms, the Song of Solomon and books from both Testaments are replete with language relating humanity’s relationship with God in romantic terms. Christians have been using romantic language for God for millennia. It wasn’t the word “crush” that actually made people mad. “Toxic.” “Blasphemer.” “Abominable.” All these and many more epithets were hurled at Moore for the use of the word “crush.”īut let’s be real. Scientists Have Revived the Organs of Dead Pigs, Which Should Go Just Fine Beth Moore doesn’t have a clue who the true Jesus of the Bible even is. “He is your Lord, your Savior, your Creator, your Sustainer, your King and your God. “ Jesus Christ is not your ‘boyfriend’ or your ‘homeboy,” tweeted another. “I am really holding my tongue right now. The crux of the issue appears to be the use of “crush,” with Twitter users trying to lambast Moore “romanticizing Jesus.” And since Moore’s departure from the Southern Baptist Convention made her Public Enemy Number One for many believers, she’s an easy target and they took this opportunity to be angry. No, Twitter is full of people looking for any excuse to unleash the meanest thing they can think of on the easiest target they can find. But remember, Twitter is not where normal people are at their normalest. That’s all a normal person would take away from this. A fun, silly post about being proud of your garden and loving Jesus.
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